The actual Southern
California locations where
the 2008 movie "Yes
Man" was filmed.

Part
1

We first see Jim
Carrey's character, 'Carl', at a video store, checking out the
DVD's, when his friend calls him on his cell phone. He pretends he's not
in the video store, but his friend
is right outside, and can see him though the store window.

That scene was filmed at the Blockbuster
Video store at 2175 Colorado Blvd,
in Eagle Rock. That's at the northeast
corner of Colorado & Eagle Rock Blvds.

The Eagle Rock neighborhood is located
in northeast Los Angeles, between Pasadena and Glendale, about nine miles
northeast of downtown L.A. (And yes, there really is a big rock
that looks something like an eagle in Eagle Rock.)

[ Thanks go out
toDave Tfor
tracking down a number of these "Yes Man" locations.Thanks,
Dave!]

Carl's friends drag him to a restaurant
called the Bigfoot Lodge, with log
walls and a northwest theme.

As unlikely as it might seem, the Bigfoot
Lodge is real - log walls and all. You'll find it at 3172
Los Feliz Blvd, in the Los Feliz/Glendale section of Los
Angeles. It's near the southeast corner of Los Feliz & GlenFeliz
Blvds.

That's about two miles southeast of
the L.A. Zoo, and just a few blocks west of the original Forest
Lawn in Glendale.

Carl lives alone in an apartment
house, next to a rather amorous senior citizen named 'Tillie'.

That apartment house is really the
Park Plaza apartments, at 3311 Rowena Ave,
in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles . That's near the northwest
corner of Rowena & Griffith Park Blvd, and just a mile southwest of
the Bigfoot Lodge.

An early scene has Carl leaving a bright
blue coffee shop (a fake sign outside
reads "La Casa Blue"), when he runs into a guy passing out
flyers, which he refuses.

( Later, after being converted to the
"Yes" philosophy, he takes one of those flyers and ends up at
Allison's club. )

That blue building actually houses
"Curves" (a women's fitness
center), and 5928 York Blvd, in Eagle
Rock. That's at the west/southwest corner of York Blvd
& Aldama St.

That's the same city neighborhood as
the video store, but the 'coffee shop' is about
two miles southeast of the video location.

Finally, tired with his boring life,
Carl is persuaded to attend a "Yes" seminar
at a hotel.

That hotel is the Hollywood Renaissance
Hotel, at 1755 N. Highland Ave,
in Hollywood.

In the establishing shot, we're looking
west at the east-facing side of the hotel, on Highland Avenue.

After his conversion, when leaving
the hotel, Carl encounters a bum who takes advantage of Carl's new-found
inability to say 'no', by asking for a ride to Elysian
Park. Once there, he asks for money, and then (sensing opportunity)
asks for all of Carl's money, which Carl gives him.

Carl then discovers that his car is
out of gas. He's stranded, and and is forced to walk alone at night through
the lonely, foresty park, making jokes about being killed by the Manson
family.

Elysian Park
is a real city park on Los Angeles. It's a large, mostly undeveloped
section of hilly, wooded land, north of (and partially surrounding) Dodger
Stadium - which, in turn, is just northwest of downtown L.A. The official
address of the park is 1880 Academy Drive,
Los Angeles.

Out of gas, Carl walks to the nearest
gas station (gas can in hand), where he meets an eccentric girl
named 'Allison', (Zooey Deschanel)
who offers him a ride back to his car, on the back of her motor scooter.

That scene was shot at the Gas Express
station, at 1467 W. Sunset Blvd,
which is indeed just west of Elysian Park (and just west of Echo Park).
It's at the northeast corner of W. Sunset Blvd & Portia Street.

(Don't mistake this for the Sunset
Strip - this section of Sunset is a good eight miles east of
the Strip.)

Next, we see 'Carl' on the back of
the girl's motor bike, taking a wild ride through town.

Those motor
scooter scenes were shot along the 2700
block of N. Broadway, Los Angeles - between
Workman Street (on the west) and Griffin
Ave (on the east).

They are heading east
on Broadway, with the camera looking south and southwest.

Ironically, you'd have to pass through
(or around) Elysian Park to get from the gas station to this stretch of
Broadway, which is located to the east of Elysian Park & Dodger
Stadium, about four miles from the gas station, and on the opposite side
of the park.

More Yes
Man locations!

Some of the photos on this
page are stills from the DVD of "Yes Man"
(which you can buy by clicking
here) and are copyright Warner Bros.